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The State of Microfinance - Outreach, Profitability and Poverty: Findings from a Database of 2300 Microfinance Institutions

Profitability and client poverty: Loan size and client poverty; Loan size and profitability; Percentage of very poor clients and profitability.

The paper concludes that: Governments continue to be the major providers of microcredit; Private microfinance is profitable and stable enough to move into the mainstream financial system; Microfinance is not dominated by non-government organizations (NGOs) - NGOs account for only a quarter of borrowers; NGOs may play a more substantial role in the long-term; MFIs that have not become profitable at an early stage should realize that growth by itself will not make them profitable; There is no indication that serving poor customers hurts financial performance.